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Sources: Apple is intensifying CEO succession planning as Tim Cook, now 65, may step down as early as next year, with John Ternus seen as the likely successor — iPhone maker's board is preparing for its longtime leader to step down as early as next year — Apple is stepping …
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OpenAI says ChatGPT will now ditch em dashes if users tell it to; em dashes have become telltale signs that supposedly signals text written by AI — OpenAI says ChatGPT will now ditch the em dashes if you tell it to. The telltale sign that supposedly signals text written by AI has popped …
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| Meghan Bobrowsky / Wall Street Journal: |
A profile of Meta Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun, reportedly leaving after being sidelined, who says LLMs are a dead end for AGI and backs world models instead — Yann LeCun invented many fundamental components of modern AI. Now he's convinced most in his field have been led astray by the siren song of large language models.
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| Blake Brittain / Reuters: |
A California federal jury says Apple must pay Masimo $634M for infringing a blood-oxygen patent used in Watch workout and heart-rate alerts; Apple will appeal — A federal jury in California said on Friday that Apple (AAPL.O) owes medical-monitoring technology company Masimo (MASI.O) …
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A look at the global AI data center buildout, its limits, and ROI concerns; in 2025, US capacity that is built, underway, planned, or stalled has topped 80 GW — Record capital expenditures and data-center planning run up against the ground truths of physical infrastructure| The Information: |
Sources: Apptronik, a humanoid robot maker backed by Google, is in the process of raising at least $400M led by B Capital at a $5B pre-money valuation — Apptronik, a humanoid robot maker backed by Google, is in the process of raising at least $400 million at a $5 billion valuation not including … | Molly Taft / Wired: |
Data Center Watch: local opposition blocked or delayed 17 US data center projects worth $98B in Q2 2025, vs. 16 projects worth $64B from May 2024 to March 2025 — A new report finds that local opposition to data centers skyrocketed in the second quarter of this year.
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| Jyoti Mann / Business Insider: |
Internal memo: Meta plans to assess employees on their “AI-driven impact”, which will be a “core expectation” of their performance from 2026 — - Meta will assess employee performance by AI-driven impact starting in 2026. — The company is shifting toward …
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| Suvashree Ghosh / Bloomberg: |
Digital asset treasuries increasingly rely on in-kind contributions, with sponsors using their own crypto instead of cash, shifting risk to retail investors — Executives are turning to a novel structure to fund crypto accumulation vehicles as investor appetite thins.| Marcus Mendes / 9to5Mac: |
Opera says in the 12 months ending with October, it saw a 88% surge in daily active iOS users across Europe, partly due to the changes mandated by the DMA — Norway-based Opera announced today that its iOS user base in Europe has grown by as much as five times since the Digital Markets Act (DMA) took effect in 2024.| Hugh Son / CNBC: |
JPMorgan Chase secures deals with fintech middlemen, like Plaid, covering 95%+ of third-party data pulls, and will receive payment for access to customer data — JPMorgan Chase has secured deals ensuring it will get paid by the fintech firms responsible for nearly all the data requests …
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| Yun Li / CNBC: |
Filing: Berkshire Hathaway discloses a $4.3B stake in Alphabet in Q3, a surprising move given Warren Buffett's reluctance toward high-growth, tech-driven stocks — Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway revealed a new position in internet and AI giant Alphabet in a filing … | Theo Wayt / The Information: |
Elon Musk says Grok 5 would be released “in Q1 sometime”, later than a deadline he previously set of releasing the model by the end of 2025 — XAI plans to release its next-generation Grok 5 artificial intelligence model in the first three months of next year, CEO Elon Musk said on Friday.
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| Karissa Bell / Engadget: |
X replaces DMs with Chat, a new messaging system that it says is E2EE, supports file sharing, video calling, and more, rolling out first to iOS and the web — It also adds disappearing messages and file sharing features. — X has finally revealed its long-promised chat platform …
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